 DAVID
IRVING protests to Sir Paul Condon of
the Metropolitan Police about the Creation of an
Illegal para-military force, the Community Security
Trust, by the Board of Deputies of British
Jews
Condon |
JEWISH
CHRONICLE JANUARY 24, 1997 (Facsimile of
advertisement)
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| COMMUNITY
SECURITY
TRUST The
Community Security Trust exists to combat
anti-semitism and racism. It protects and
defends the Jewish
community. "There is no
other country of which I am aware that has
such a developed, and disciplined
community-based security organisation. Be
proud of it and nurture
it". Sir Paul Condon - Commissioner,
Metropolitan Police "If the Community
Security Trust
didn't exist we would
have to invent something
very much like it" David Veness - Assistant
Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Comprised
of trained volunteers, supported by a team
of full time professionals, and supervised
by a Trustees and Advisory Board, the CST
provides the community with a range of
invaluable services. These include
physical
security advice and
training, the
provision of security volunteers at
communal events, assisting the police and,
most importantly, monitoring
the community's enemies,
especially those advocating anti-semitism
and racism. | SHOULD
YOU REQUIRE OR WOULD
LIKE TO GIVE ANY ASSISTANCE
REGARDING COMMUNAL
SECURITY MATTERS
PLEASE CONTACT THE CST
ON
| London | 0171 543
5432 | | Manchester | 0161
7400668 | ALL
24 | Glasgow | 0141
6211900 | HOURS | Leeds
| 01426 620
134 | |
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London,
January 10, 1997
Dear Mr Jones PLEASE INFORM me whether the Community Security
Trust, the sinister-sounding body advertised in the
enclosed page, and/or its supervisory body the
Trustees and Advisory Board, have registered a
database with your agency and if so supply me with
an uncertified copy of their registration
certificate. If they have not registered, perhaps
your agency should remind them of their duties
under the Act.
Yours sincerely,
David Irving
Focal Point Publications
To the: Data Protection Agency
Mr Philip Jones, Asst Registrar
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire SK9 5AF |
[The Data Protection Agency replied that the
CST had not yet registered its computer database, but had
now announced that it intended to in the future. The CST
finally registered the database in
August 1997, and Jones promptly and very properly
informed Mr Irving of this fact.] | To top of this File |
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Index to Board of Deputies |Dear Sir Paul,
The Board of Deputies of British Jews; the
Community Service Trust I HAVE been alarmed by the emergence of the
second of the above-named bodies, and waiting in
vain for some comment on it to appear in the
national press. Since you have (apparently) publicly welcomed
this extraordinary development, in display
advertisements published in the Jewish community
newspapers, there is no need for me to elaborate on
its nature. However I should welcome -- since I and
your officers, who have guarded these premises and
my lectures, have in the past been the target of
violent demonstrations launched by these people and
their unappetising thugs -- an explanation from
your legal staff on how the activities of this new
para-military body (the CST) which is to undertake
"training of Jewish younsgters in self defence
techniques" and operate in a "hands on" way as
opposed to the political work of the Board itself,
and which appears to have evolved, lizard-like,
from the previous Communal Security Organisation
(CSO) can be squared with the provisions of the
Public Order Act which expressly prohibits the
operation of any "para-military body which is
organised and/or trained and/or equipped for the
purpose of achieving political objectives by means
of physical force" (and makes equally illegal
giving "reasonable apprehension" of being engaged
in such activity.) Do the Metropolitan Police now endorse the
operation of vigilante groups in special
circumstances?
I am disturbed by this development, and after I
have received your reply I shall take it up with
our Member of Parliament to pursue my inquiries
further. Yours sincerely,
David Irving To: Sir Paul Condon
Commissioner, The Metropolitan Police
New Scotland Yard
London SW1 |
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of Deputies |[The
reply from
Condon's deputy David Strang, March 11,
1997, was wholly inadequate and made no
attempt to address to legal issues
involved:- |
Sir Paul
Condon QPM
Commissioner of Police of the
Metropolis 11 March 1997 METROPOLITAN
POLICE SERVICE
New Scotland Yard
Broadway
London SW1H OBG
David Irving Esq
Focal Point Publications
81 Duke Street
London W1M 5DJ Dear Mr Irving, On behalf of the Commissioner may I thank you
for your letter of 2 March. The Commissioner has noted your comments.
However, the Community Service Trust is not, as
you allege, a para-military body. The
Metropolitan Police does not endorse the
operation of vigilante groups, of whatever form,
but is committed to upholding the law firmly and
fairly. Yours sincerely, David Strang
Superintendent
Staff Officer to Commissioner]
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| David Irving at once drafted this
response:- |
Dear Sir Paul,The Board of Deputies of British Jews; the
Community Service Trust I HAVE RECEIVED David Strang's reply of March
11, and find it thin gruel indeed. It is
unsatisfactory and inadequate. This week The
Jewish Chronicle (March 14) has again blessed
its readers with a whole-page advertisement for the
new Community Security Trust of the Board of
Deputies of British Jews, including the evocative,
indeed provocative, words
combat, disciplined,
trained, physical, security volunteers, enemies,
and monitoring.
I hear in the CST
unmistakeable echoes of the Jewish Defense League
set up with exactly the same aims in the United
States, which the U.S. government has since defined
to be a terrorist organisation.
I again remind you
of the sections of the Public Order Act which
expressly prohibit the operation of any
"para-military body which is or ganised and/or
trained and/or equipped for the purpose of
achieving political objectives by means of physical
force".
In his reply to me,
Mr Strang maintains this is not vigilantism; may I
ask your office to provide me with a definition of
the vigilantism that will be not be tolerated and
indicate to me how it differs from what the CST is
serving up?
The latest
fund-raising advertisement is again embellished
with photographs of yourself and Mr Veness, no
doubt provided by your office, and with words of
praise which allegedly flowed from your two pens.
Your office is funded by government precept, and by
the money of rate- and taxpayers like myself. You
are beholden to be impartial between races,
religions, ideologies, and political views, within
the law. By endorsing the as yet unproven CST, I
hold that you are betraying the interests of the
force, and you are degrading the works of countless
predecessors in your noble office.
If at any time I or
my family are molested, beset, harassed, physically
threatened, or have any other of our civil rights
violated by the CST, this unsavoury body to which
you have lent your name and reputation, or by those
whom I perceive to be their agents, I shall not
hesitate to start action against yourselves and the
police authority for not having acted on my
request, which I state herewith, that you take all
due steps under the Public Order Act to investigate
and curtail the growth of this noxious excrescence
on the British public scene.
As soon as I have
completed my inquiries, which will include your
response to my questions above, I shall submit a
protest to our Parliamentary representative and to
the audit office which oversees the operations of
the Metropolitan Police.Yours sincerely,
David Irving
FOCAL POINT PUBLICATIONS To: Sir Paul Condon
Commissioner,
The Metropolitan Police
8-10 Broadway
London SW1H 0BG |
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Mr David Irving
81 Duke Street
LONDON
W1M 5DJ 31 July 1997 Dear Mr Irving I am enclosing a copy of register entry,
registration number X3384840, in the name of the
Community Security Trust as you requested. Yours sincerely PHILIP J JONES
Assistant Registrar encls: Register Entry |
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of Deputies || A
Digest of the Data Protection Agency
Registration of the "Community
Security Trust":- DPA
Registration X.3384840
IN ITS REGISTRATION papers, the CST admits that it
holds computerised data for six purposes: these are
personnel administration, fund-raising, membership
administration, "charity and voluntary organisation
objectives", "other consultative and advisory
services", and "information and data bank
administration". Of these categories the fifth is
defined as "giving advice or rendering professional
services, acting on behalf of clients,
[and] analysis for management purposes and
statutory returns," but this appears to relate only
to Community Security Trust employees.
More sinister is the
sixth purpose.
This is defined as the "maintenance of information
or data banks as a reference tool or general
resource"; this includes catalogues, lists,
directories, bibliographic and "free text data
bases." Typical activities to this end are "the
compilation or updating of data banks; monitoring
of access or use; maintenance for historical
purposes; analysis for management purposes and
statutory returns." Data is to be gathered and held
about "current, past, potential members, supporters
of a club, society, [or] institution."
Among the classes of data to be held are several
that are identical to those already found in the
registration under the Data Protection Act of the
database maintained by the Board of Deputies of
British Jews namely all the "dirt" they can get on
just about anybody in their host English community
- the personal details, physical description,
habits, personality, character, current marriage or
partnership, marital history, other family or
household members and social contacts,
accommodation or housing, property and possessions,
immigration status, travel and movement details,
leisure activities and interests, "lifestyle"
[i.e. homosexuality or otherwise],
membership of voluntary and charitable bodies,
public offices held, court, tribunal or inquiry
proceedings concerning them, their academic record,
their qualifications and skills, professional
bodies and committees they belong to, their
publications, their student record, their current
employment, career history, political and other
convictions, political party membership, pressure
groups which they support, their religious beliefs,
their other beliefs, and "uncategorised
information", which may include any number of
topics not listed above.
They intend to obtain this media from the people
themselves, their employers and employees, their
colleagues and associates, and provide the data to
"police forces, lawyers, political organisations,"
"the media" and "academics".
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| To top of this File | To
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of Deputies |London, August 21,
1997 Dear Sirs,
Data Protection Act,
1984ACTING ON information received, I give to the
Board of Deputies of British Jews herewith
statutory notice under the above-referenced Act to
provide to me within forty (40) days at my expense
copies of any and all data held by your agency
as of this date relating to me insofar
as such data is covered by the terms and provisions
of the said Act.
I am writing
simultaneously to the Community
Security Trust (CST) with which you are affiliated
to give them the same notice, relating to their
database registered on July 24, 1997 with the Data
Protection Agency as number X.3384840.
If you or the CST
fail to comply with the Act, I shall call upon the
authorities to take the appropriate action.
Yours sincerely,
David Irving
Attn.: Michel Whine, Director,
Research Unit
Board of Deputies of British Jews
Commonwealth House
1 19 New Oxford Street
London WC1A 1NF
Recorded
Delivery |
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of Deputies |A Liar Replies. .
.
 David Irving
81 Duke Street
London W1M 5DJ 1st September 1997 Dear Mr Irving, Further to your letter of 21st
August 1997, I am writing to inform you that we
hold no information on you under the terms of
the Data Protection Act 1984. Yours sincerely, Michael Whine Commonwealth
House, 1-19 New Oxford Street, London WCIA INF Tel:
017u-543 5432 Fax: 0171-543 0500
CHARITY
COMMISSION REG. No. 1042391 |
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CST Index | To Index to Board
of Deputies |. . . and Lies again:
The Board of Deputies of British
Jews
Commonwealth House, 1-19 New Oxford Street,
London WC1A 1NF
Telephone: 0171-543 5400
Facsimile: 0171-543 0010 e-mail:
bod@ort.org David Irving
81 Duke Street
London W1M 5DJ 1st September 1997 Dear Mr Irving, Further to your letter of 21st August
1997, I am writing to inform you that we hold no
information on you under the terms of the Data
Protection Act 1984. Yours sincerely, Michael Whine |
| To top of this File | To
CST Index | To Index to Board
of Deputies |This
Website comments:- - Now
see the Board of Deputies of British Jews's
"intelligence
report"
on Mr Irving, which the same Michael Whine
admitted under affidavit
his staff had produced and furnished
clandestinely to the Canadian Jewish authorities
and government.
- EVERY
subject now has the statutory
right
under the Data Protection Act, 1984, to
give the Board of Deputies and the Community
Security Trust forty days' notice in writing to
provide copies of all data maintained by the
Board on them, and to require the Board to make
such corrections as the subject concerned may
require.
Subjects who suspect that they are
being victimised should write in the first
instance by Recorded Mail to the Research Unit,
Board of Deputies of British Jews (and/or
Community Security Trust) marking their letter
for the attention of Michael Whine, Director,
Research Unit, Commonwealth House, 1 - 19 New
Oxford Street, London WC1A 1NF. If the Board
refuses to give satisfaction within forty days,
the subject should then complain in writing to
the Registrar
of the Data Protection
Agency,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire
SK9 5AF; the agency has statutory powers to
search and seize databases in the event of non
compliance with the Act.
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